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Paper and packaging companies have been largely driven by output volume. However, this is no longer sufficient, and new business models and processes can illustrate a successful path into the future. Many organizations are aiming to design a system that better balances demand with production, focuses on profitability, and can also yield a more efficient operations and control system. This transformation requires real-time digital information and control in a digital paper and packaging enterprise.

KOTKA, Finland, Aug. 22, 2016 (Press Release) -We warmly welcome you to meet us at LUXE PACK, the premier show for creative packaging on September 21–23 at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco.

You will find us in hall Indigo, stand I01.

Our new folding boxboard option AEGLE Luxe represents the next generation of opportunity in premium packaging – for brand owners, converters and designers alike. Join us to learn more about the new silk matte coated, white back folding boxboard from Kotkamills.

WÜRZBURG, Germany, Aug. 23, 2016 (Press Release) -Following successful installations of KBA sheetfed offset presses in other print companies belonging to the Slovakian Grafobal group, whose operations are spread over several Eastern European countries and cover numerous other segments beside the core competency in packaging, the first KBA Rapida 106 has now been taken into operation at the Grafobal headquarters in Skalica.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21, 2016 (Press Release) -The developing world is awash in substandard, degraded or falsified medications, which can either directly harm users or deprive them of needed treatment. And with internet sales of medications on the rise, people everywhere are increasingly at risk. So, a team of researchers has developed a simple, inexpensive paper-based device to screen suspicious medications.

LONDON, Aug. 22, 2016 (Business Wire) -Intertek, a leading quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, has supported Frugalpac, a pioneering UK packaging firm, in developing a recyclable coffee cup. The innovative cup is now being trialled by some of the world’s major coffee brands.

Intertek has partnered from the outset with entrepreneur Martin Myerscough and his UK team at Frugalpac to establish the viability of their proposed recyclable cup by conducting and managing recycling trials, testing the cup’s functional performance, and measuring the cup’s carbon footprint.

ROCHESTER, NY , Aug. 17, 2016 (Press Release) -Diamond Packaging today announced that it won four awards, including all three in the Sustainability – Folding Cartons category, in the 30th annual packagePRINTING Excellence Awards, the industry's only competition recognizing the highest level of printing quality and technical achievement across the full range of packaging segments – labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons, and corrugated. Winners were chosen from hundreds of entries submitted in over 40 different categories.

REMSHALDEN and STUTTGART, Germany, Aug. 9, 2016 (Press Release) -The Klingele Group, one of the leading, independent manufacturers of corrugated base paper and packaging made from corrugated board, has developed an alternative to the conventional plastic carrier bag. The “WellBag”, a bag made out of corrugated board, is distinguished by a successful combination of sustainability and lifestyle design, and can be used in all areas of retail stores.

MUNICH, Germany, Aug. 11, 2016 (Press Release) -The objective of this research project was the reduction of phthalate migration from packaging materials made of recycled board into food based on identification of all sources and quantification of phthalate input streams as well as of the phthalate migration.

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